Date of the next World Sanskrit Conference

[Madhav Deshpande]

>From my point of view, any date during the months of May, June, July, and 
August would be fine.  Those are the months when most US universities are 
not in session and we are relatively free to take out two to three weeks.
	Madhav Deshpande

On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> The first meeting of a committee to begin planning the next World
> Sanskrit Conference (i.e., the meeting of the International Association of
> Sanskrit Studies, or IASS) will take place this Friday, 24th March, in
> Bangalore. The principle organizer, Dr Shivamurthy Swamiji, has asked me
> to conduct a poll on INDOLOGY to ascertain the most popular date for the
> forthcoming meeting.
> 
> If you are thinking of coming to the next World Sanskrit Conference,
> which is to be held in Bangalore, India, could you kindly send me the
> week in 1997 which you think would be the best time for the meeting.
> Please take account of such things as your teaching schedule,
> term/semester breaks, etc.
> 
> At present, the very end of 1996, or the very beginning of 1997 are the
> dates being thought about, following the model of the Melbourne meet.
> But Dr Shivamurthy Swamiji said that things are still flexible, and you
> should suggest any date in 1997 that you think would be good.
> 
> Any responses I receive before Friday would be especially useful, as
> a summary can go before the first conference planning meeting.
> 
> NB:
> ===
> Please send your responses to me directly as "dom at vigyan.iisc.ernet.in".
> Do not "Reply" to the INDOLOGY list.
> 
> If the above address gives trouble (it shouldn't), try "d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk".
> 
> PLEASE PUT YOUR FAVOURED DATE IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR MESSAGE, and
> flag it with the initials "IASS", like this:
> 
>   "IASS: I vote for week 37" (or whatever)
> 
> I.e., if possible, give your preference as a week number in 1997.
> 
> That will help me enormously to process your votes.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Dominik
> 
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